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Show RAINFALL BOLSTERS NORTHERN AREAS South Declared Emergency Area Relief Measures Necessary Greatly aided by recent rainfalls, Northern Utah streat.ns are now carrying enough water to see the farmers in that portion of the state through the season, says Dean George D. Clyde, irrigation engineer at the Utah State Agricultural college. While soutnern Utah is sdifering from severe drouth t'.ie Logan, Weber, Provo and Price rivers appear to have enough Hater in them so that with careful handling hand-ling enough iwlater will be available for this season's use. According to the Dean's report, Juab, east Miliaria;, Beaver, Iron, parts of Washington, Kane, Wayne, Garfield, Piute, Sanpete, San Juan, EJxiery, Uintah- and Duchesne counties count-ies are very severely drouth stricken land government aid is necessary to relieve ti.e situation. This -area bias been declared an emergency area and because of this it uviill be possible pos-sible for the flai'ai. security ac'i,.nim-stration ac'i,.nim-stration to take relief ,x,easures. Streams in Uintah county have reached a dangerously low point according ac-cording to Dean Clyde and even wit.i tne 'most careful conservation of the storage supplies of water it (will be necessary for gov eminent agencies to help out. in a .meeting held August 10th in Salt Lake City, it was pointed out tnat people living in this district do not want charity but a. c.ilance to work for enough cash to provide food and clothing and feed for their livestoc-s: for the coming winter. A Golden Kilbui.'n, executive assistant as-sistant for the Triple-A at Logan, reported that supervision of farms to iheter-rrrine -ccLnL-(liance is well under way and benefit payments will probably be sent out to farmers in the drouth stricken area (Wiitliin 30 days after the various farms have coen supervised. This cash should be if s;J r.ie oolp. If possible these payments pay-ments will be out before tax time, he explained. The total payments of the AAA in the state of Utah will atx-ount to about $2,250,000 with $1,250,000 going for sugar beet jiayixents. |